From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:58:09 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20060601.092045.260111773.wl@gnu.org> <20060601.164819.28794160.wl@gnu.org> <8564jkbo9j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149195543 23105 80.91.229.2 (1 Jun 2006 20:59:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 20:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 01 22:58:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FluFq-0000Mn-7w for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:58:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FluFp-0003yT-U4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:58:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FluFC-0003oY-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FluFA-0003o0-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FluFA-0003nv-9H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FluLS-0005qS-G2; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:04:42 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-246-167.inter.net.il [84.228.246.167]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DNZ20836 (AUTH halo1); Thu, 1 Jun 2006 23:58:07 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: David Kastrup In-reply-to: <8564jkbo9j.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:43:20 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55579 Archived-At: > Cc: Werner LEMBERG , emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: David Kastrup > Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:43:20 +0200 > > > We shouldn't cater only to the ignorant. > > It is the ignorant who need to consult a manual in the first place. No, everybody needs to consult a manual. The only exceptions are those super-humans who can remember a 600-page manual by heart. > > If I type "i utf-8 RET" and land on the page that describes > > ucs-insert, I don't want to waste time looking for information that > > just isn't there. > > The time to press `,' is not exactly taxing for a cognoscente. I was talking about the time it takes to read and re-read the node, searching in vain where it talks about UTF. I have a bad habit of trusting the index, so if it says there's something about UTF, I'll try hard to find it.